Friday, March 13, 2009

Placeholder #9

Art - The art in this strip is done well, especially the lines underneath Francis' eyes demonstrating the extent to which he went to get rid of the points. Also, the Francis' crying is done well and skirts being too over-the top well, without taking away from the strip.

The only thing missing is in the last frame when the frame of the picture, seen in frame one, should have been in the upper right corner for continuity and break the gray up a little.

Story - A nice little story for me since I am an Xbox and Xbox Live user. It is a little frustrating thing to use all the points in you account, even though I think Francis is taking it a little too far :).

I like A Nonny Mouse's idea of having the special avatar being a weird point value because 250 points is a more even number and easier to spend (especially is you are a Guitar Hero/Rock Band fan)

PS - I checked Alexa for the first time in a while and PVPMMS has had a nice little spike in page views. So thanks to everyone for that. To see that stats go here the weirdest part is apparently we are big in South Korea, but hey the more the merrier.

Remember Uncle Jesse was VERY big in Japan, so South Korea I think you! :)

PPS - To channel Peter Potamus - Jim Thorpe did you get that thing I sent you a week ago?

9 comments:

If the central joke of the strip is that Francis has had to work forever to find an item worth exactly the amount of points he has left, why doesn't the special gamer icon cost a really strange amount of money, ending with a two or seven or something? It's only starting all over again if he's going to have trouble getting back to zero, but how hard is it to get rid of 250 points?

Ya, don't think I'd like to tick him off by saying "the guys and gals a pvp makes me sad say hi"...He'd probably just curse me out. I like his work, and it's cool that he shares his knowledge with the webcomics community. I admire him for having a successful art career, and being able to do what he loves for a living.

PVP
Yes, I do recommend it; its very popularity is what recommends it. It is the ultimate example that web comics can have mainstream appeal, and shouldn't be disregarded by the industry just because they're web comics.